The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII (Routledge Classics) - Hardcover

Lacan, Jacques

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138834599 ISBN 13: 9781138834590

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural and media studies.

He gained his reputation as a lecturer, disseminating his ideas to audiences that included Jean-Paul Sartre and Luce Irigaray amongst other hugely influential names. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis is a transcript of his most important lecture series.

Including influential readings of Sophocles’ Antigone and Elizabethan courtly love poetry in relation to female sexuality, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis remains a powerful and controversial work that is still argued over today by the likes of Judith Butler and Slavoj Žižek.

About this title

About the Author:

The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. His many published works include Ecrits and The Seminars.

Review:

Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Georges Bataille had often urged Lacan to publish the text of his seminars: the influence of his teaching can be observed in works by Maurice Blanchot and Michel Foucault ... in Roland Barthes's studies on semiology and Louis Althusser's reading of Marx. But it can be felt still more basically [in] the current revival of interest in psychoanalysis . . . the desire for a return to origins which is a common factor in so many avenues of modern thought. The Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138834599
• ISBN 13: 9781138834590
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432